This question was asked earlier. I thought it may be a good thing to offer this information as a Discussion under: Designing and creating a Ning Network.

Here's your situation: You've created a Ning Network, and your Design is perfect. You want to use the same design for another Ning Network.Below, I have listed the steps to accomplish this task. This is the long way. I feel it's the best way. In case anyone brings this up: you could copy/paste ALL CSS (original theme, platform CSS, your theme, etc...) with Firebug. Fact: This is messy, not reliable, and would go way over the character limits in your CSS box. This I would not advise.

To apply the cleanest method, follow these steps:

From Original Ning Network:

Go to Manage/Appearance/Basic Theme

Locate the original theme you selected.

Make note of the theme name.

Go to Manage/Appearance/All Options

Note or record any colors/fonts you have edited, outside of the original theme you selected.

I typically flip back and forth between old/new to make sure I have all the same colors.

Do be sure you have selected the tab "All Options" when you compare your colors.

Make notes if you have uploaded a Network Logo, Background Image, Body Image, Badge Background, and Media Player Image.

Go to Manage/Appearance/Advanced - Copy/paste all CSS to a text file, and SAVE your text file. You will need this on the new site.

Go to new Ning Network.

Go to Manage/Appearance/Basic Theme.

Select the same theme you selected on original site. You will receive a warning that your existing CSS will be overwritten. This should be expected.

SAVE your changes now, with selected theme.

Go back to Manage/Appearance/Advanced.

Paste all of the CSS from your original (contents of the text file you saved), to your CSS box on new site.

SAVE

Now the hardest part: Go back to Manage/Appearance/All Options

Change any colors that were edited, outside of original theme.

Upload any images as indicated above.

SAVE.

This should do it. This is much easier than it looks. ;-)

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